Mikhail Lobovsky

Fourth-year PhD student Mikhail Lobovsky became the winner of the All-Russian Engineering Competition (REC) 2024/2025, organized by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation.

This year, 10,000 participants competed for the title of the best engineers in the country, of which only 110 made it to the final. The final stage took place in Moscow, where the finalists presented their projects to experts from leading industry companies.

Mikhail presented research on the topic “Improving the method for calculating the stability of through two-branch elements of steel structures”, carried out under the supervision of DSc in Engineering, Honored Scientist of Russia, Visiting Professor at the SPbGASU Department of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Constructions Grigory Ivanovich Bely.

"The existing methods for calculating the overall stability of lattice elements, presented in SP 16.13330.2017 "Steel structures", have a number of assumptions that do not allow taking into account the actual loading along the length of the element, the influence of defects and damage, and also lead to an underestimation of the bearing capacity of building structures. Therefore, in order to determine the actual bearing capacity of operated and designed through two-branch elements, modern calculation methods require improvement," Mikhail said about the topic of his work.

REC is one of the most prestigious platforms for young engineers. Winners receive support from key industry players, including Rosatom, Roscosmos, Rostec, RusHydro, Russian Railways and other corporations. In addition to diplomas and valuable prizes, the competition laureates have advantages when entering the next level of education.

According to Mikhail, he plans to continue research and implement developments in real projects.